It is worth considering in detail the example of the Luas. It a good example of how things have simply not happened. The Luas was first announced by Government in 1994 as part of the Structural Funds round of 1994-99. When the Fianna Fáil-PD Government came to power in 1997, one of the first things it did was to suspend the public inquiry that was then in place so that it could resolve a row between the Government partners, one party of which wanted to put the city centre section underground while the other did not. The consultants reported a year later – a year that was lost to the whole process – and their suggestions were ultimately disregarded by Government. The three lines initially planned soon became two and the city centre area was left in limbo. We still do not know whether it will actually be developed. Close to the end of the process we are left with a fraction of a network, which is not integrated as the lines do not meet and probably will never meet. It does not have the capacity to move anything like the number of people who live along the line and it cannot be converted, in a realistic way within a realistic timetable or at a realistic price, into a metro as proposed in the platform for change at the DTO. It is causing enormous disruption and is costing a fortune.